What kind of sources used. You allude to the fact access in china is difficult these days. What kind of sources did you use . Second question, what do you was the most challenging thing about writing the biography . Putting this book together was a real effective story. You know, there are some of the different pieces to it, different aspects to it. As i mentioned before i was very fortunate to meet three of birches surviving brothers, papers of William Dolan at uc berkeley, papers of the wedemeyer at the hoover institution. The 14th air force archive at montgomery, alabama, Maxwell Air Force base, socially and exciting trip, and exciting find because buried in those materials is a 24, 25 page interview, oral history interview with john birch which was conducted about five months before his death. The Army Air Force historian arranged this interview because of john birch was the first of these field intelligence officers. He had met doolittle. He had led a colorful life, so theres some
About Thomas Jefferson. They start now on booktv. Miss gordon reed won the National Book award and the Pulitzer Prize for her first book also about Thomas Jefferson. Good afternoon and welcome to the seventh annual gaithersburg book festival. I am a Nonfiction Book critic at the washington post. It is honored to be here in gaithersburg and take part in this wonderful literary festival. I have been to a lot of these and there are few that are as inviting and welcoming, excuse me . I will try to speak as loudly as i can. A few housekeeping announcements. For the consideration of everyone here if you can keep your phones quiet that would be great. If you are tweeting the event we need your feedback, there are surveys to complete at the tent and on the festival website. If you completed you can win a 100 visa gift card which you should spend on books. Speaking of books our office will be signing at the book signing area intent a, line 4 right after the presentation and copies are on sale o
That is the way, with the possible exception of british emancipation in 1833 in the west indies which was also in a geopolitical situation of danger that britain faced, masters never want to free their slaves. Jefferson wanted to believe these masters were different from masters throughout history because they were enlightened enough to break away from the British Empire. If you could do that, my fellow americans, you can do anything. Not true because of course the revolution in some ways was a revolution to consolidate the hold of slaveholders over their slaves. This is the situation we find jefferson in, that is bucking the opinion of his neighbors and that is the fundamental problem. Can you talk a little more about france . We love france. I will start and you will finish. France is really important. Did people hear her . We are talking about france. The pivot of our book we would agree. What we needed to do was get jefferson out of virginia. He was having a rough time there as you
Patrician virginian. And he ardently dislikes new englanders. He thinks theyre dirty and and by bloomberg, a provider unrule y. They have the unfortunate idea of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. They like to decide things for captioning sponsored by Rose Communications themselves, which you cant have if an army, but he overcomes that bias, which is a big inner from our studios in new york struggle, he has to, because city, this is charlie rose. Thats all hes got, a new england army. He has some people from the middle colonies who joins them. The glorious ideals and ideas rose he takes command at of the declaration of independence which we celebrate, as we should, every fourth of 33 in 75. He said to congress, im not july and, as we know, our the man. But he also knew he was better secular faith would have been nothing more than a declaration, than anybody else they could pick and they choose him not words on paper, if it werent for the people doing the hard because h
And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. The glorious ideals and ideas of the declaration of independence which we celebrate, as we should, every fourth of july and, as we know, our secular faith would have been nothing more than a declaration, words on paper, if it werent for the people doing the hard slogging and the fighting, against all odds, suffering terribly. One of the reasons i wanted to write the book is one of the lines Abigail Adams wrote to her husband about this time. She said, future generations who will reap the blessings will scarcely know the hardships and sufferings weve endured in their behalf. And we dont sufficiently know. Rose i knew she wrote that and, when i read that, it remind med that these people knew they were making history. Absolutely. Absolutely. They knew that they were being called upon to play a part in one o